COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

S E M I N A R S -

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 8, 1999

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8

Group Number Theory: (H. Bass)
Jennifer Austin
"Property T, amenability and expander families, Part II"
4:00-5:30 p.m., 528 Math.

Number Theory: (D. Goldfeld, H. Jacquet, S.W. Zhang)
Soundararajan Kannan (Princeton)
"Non-vanishing of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions at 1/2"
5:30 p.m., 507 Math. Tea will be served at 5:00 p.m., 508 Math.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11

Geometry and Analysis I: (M. Kuranishi, D.H. Phong)
Jacob Sturm (Rutgers)
"Algebraic estimates and stability of local zeta functions"
2:30 p.m., 507 Math.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12

Probability: (I. Karatzas)
Rustam Ibragim (Central Michigan)
"On exact moment inequalities for symmetric statistics"
520 Math., 11:00 a.m.

Geometric Topology: (J. Birman, B. Mangum)
Daniel Matei (Northeastern)
"Resonance Varieties and Finite Index Subgroups of Nilpotent Quotients"
1:15 p.m., 507 Math.

Algebraic Geometry: (R. Friedman, M. Thaddeus)
Michael Thaddeus
"The cohomology ring of the moduli space of flat SL(n,C) connections on a curve"
1:30 p.m., 417 Math.